One of HC Aaron Glenn's several qualifications for the members of his first Jets squad: Be a team player.
But within that concept there is still room for individual honors and records. Here are goals that some of the Jets' offensive players might be chasing in the coming season, beginning with QB Justin Fields, whose personal success will have much to say about the Jets' team success in their first season under AG.
Fields Forecast
■ If Fields completes 65.9% of his passes this season, he will top his career best of 65.8% set last year with Pittsburgh. That would come in fourth among qualifying QBs in franchise history, behind Chad Pennington's 2002 (68.9%) and '07 (68.8%) seasons and Josh McCown' in 2017 (67.3%).
■ If Fields throws for 3,698 yards, that would be third-best in Jets annals, behind the iconic Joe Namath's 4,007 yards in 1967 — when Joe was the first to 4,000 passing yards in an NFL season — and Ryan Fitzpatrick's 3,905 in 2015. Plus that metric would be a yard more than Aaron Rodgers' 3,897 last year, which checked in at No. 3 on the Jets' franchise list.
Fields, whose best yardage season was his final one with Chicago at 2,562 yards, has said: "I've been improving each year I've been in the league, so I look to do the same thing this year." Glenn, OC Tanner Engstrand and the Jets' offensive operation believes in his abilities, and Fields was on pace for 3,350 yards in 2023 had he started 17 games for the Bears instead of 13.
■ Similarly, if Fields were to complete 20 touchdown passes, he would break his personal best of 17 in 15 starts in 2022. And if he were to rush for 10 TDs, that would break his personal best (8 in '22) and the Jets' QB record (6, once each by Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith). But it wouldn't be unheard of in NFL circles — 16 other QBs have rushed for at least 10 scores in a season, most recently Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen last year.
Thirty touchdowns responsible for may sound unreachable ... except that if Fields can make the leap many think he can, he'd still be 3 TDs shy of Fitzpatrick's franchise single-season record of 33 in 2015, and he would merely tie for 140th-most TDs responsible for in the NFL since 2000. So these numbers are no slam-dunks, yet if Fields starts 17 games, improves as he thinks is possible, and gets help from his offensive mates, he could reach a few of these gaudy figures.
Garrett Wilson's Fourth
The success of Justin Fields and the offense will be tied to the success Garrett Wilson enjoys as the Jets' recently extended WR1. Wilson has set a remarkable pace for himself, having caught at least 80 passes for at least 1,000 yards in each of his first three seasons in green and white.
How unusual is that? No other Jets receiver has had three 80/1,000 seasons in a row — ever. Of course, a number of wideouts in NFL history have surpassed that, with Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison and Torry Holt each doing it eight consecutive seasons.
But from the start of an NFL career, Wilson continues on a record pace. With another 80/1,000 this season, he would join Michael Thomas (New Orleans, 2016-19) and Ja'Marr Chase (Cincinnati, 2021-24) as the only NFL pass-catchers to do it four seasons in a row from the starts of their careers.
Big-Play Breece Hall
Breece Hall's first three Jets seasons suggest he'll succeed in establishing a few more Hall marks this time around. He came up 6 yards and 124 yards shy of 1,000 rushing yards the past two seasons. As for career totals, he needs 667 rush yards to reach 3,000 and 375 scrimmage yards to get to 4,000 for his fourth pro season.
And Hall will want to keep or improve on his position on two NFL lists of the past two seasons, Hall's 1,074 receiving yards are the most by an NFL back in 2023-24 (New Orleans' Alvin Kamara is the only other 1,000-yard receiving back at 1,009), and his 2,944 scrimmage yards are fifth among backs.
Josh Reynolds Rap
If WR Josh Reynolds, entering his ninth NFL season with his sixth NFL team, fits in well alongside Wilson and can post career highs of 67 catches and 873 receiving yards, he would get to 300 catches and 4,000 yards for his career. He wasn't far from that neighborhood in his last 17-game season, with Detroit in 2023 when he had 40 catches for 608 yards. We suspect one reason he's with the Jets is that Glenn. as the Lions' DC, had to defend against Reynolds in practices from 2021-23.
Streaking Mason Taylor
Rookie TE Mason Taylor can extend his personal pass-catching streak from the get-go as a Jet after finishing his LSU career with at least one reception in his last 28 games .Of course, receivers don't get to carry over pass-catching streaks from college to the pros. But perhaps Taylor can get to work on some Jets marks out of the gate. For instance, the longest streak by a TE is by the redoubtable Mickey Shuler, 86 consecutive games with at least one catch from 1982-90.
■ Next Week Inside the Numbers: Jets defensive players' goals for '25 season"
